Customer Reviews

ˇTropicalismo!: Spice Up Your Garden with Cannas, Bananas, and 93 Other Eye-Catching Tropical Plants

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2 star:		(1)
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Pam Baggett describes plants like no one else in the business -- her descriptions are detailed, intimate, and always on target. An incredibly useful resource for those looking for specifics about individual plants (including gorgeous photos) and some suggestions for appropriate partnerings. Clearly the publisher's format limits what can be done, but this is a delightful little "sonnet" of a garden book, working beautifully within the constraints of its form to inform and inspire us.

Those of you who remember Pam's fantastic and much-missed nursery, Singing Springs Nursery, will be as happy as I am to relive the fun of reading her personality-packed plant descriptions. Each entry includes suggestions of compatible companions for inspiring container and garden combinations, too.

I have to agree with the low rating reviewer - just review the "Search Inside this Book" feature, and you can see that the book has no good photos of tropical landscapes. If you want pictures of single tropical plants, you can get those from any garden supply magazine.

The author would do well to update the book with photos of tropical style gardens, showing how others have "spiced up their gardnes" and created the "tropical environment". Before and after photos would be nice but aren't even necessary - just great photos of tropical style gardens would be a significant improvement.

I found this very little book a bore. Gave me no inspiration for accomplishing the 'Tropicalismo' theme in my gardens at all. A waste of money and will pass it on to anyone who wants it for just shipping.